Proposed changes for Publication Manager > Output Tab:

Right now, when a publication failure occurs, a writer must open the web client to access the publishing event log, which takes a lot of work. To view the event log, the writer must: 

• Log into web client.
• Open the failed output in the Repository tab.
• Clicks Status Report.
• Clicks the event log link.
• Clicks Show Verbose
• Scrolls to and clicks the shell command output).

This workflow can be greatly simplified by just adding an option to “View Event Log” when a writer right-clicks a failed output in the Output tab of Publication Manager. Users have a hard time troubleshooting their own publications because the event logs are so inaccessible. Allowing them to access the event logs directly from pub manager will go a long way to resolving this problem.